by Beth | May 12, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
America Magazine: At a Mass concelebrated by eight U.S. cardinals, the head of The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., asked Catholics to welcome illegal immigrants. Christ was not excluding anyone when he said, �I was a stranger and you welcomed...
by Beth | May 12, 2006 | News
Older computers (Windows 98 vintage, etc.) can be brought back to life using open source (free!) software. Aidan Rooney shows how. Althought not everyone has an inner geek brave enough or smart enough to try his approach it is something that some of your nephews and...
by Beth | May 11, 2006 | Justice and Peace
CANBERRA – Welfare organisations, the Opposition and the Family First party have criticised the Budget as a pot of gold for the rich that ignores Australians on struggle street. While the Government’s latest round of tax cuts have been applauded widely,...
by Beth | May 10, 2006 | Justice and Peace
Local art students focused their creative minds on the impoverished to create pieces based on photographs of people eating meals at St. Vincent de Paul Dining Room. The top 20 works in “Windows to the Soul: Putting a Human Face on Poverty in Marin County”...
by Beth | May 10, 2006 | Justice and Peace
The St Vincent de Paul Society has cautioned Australians against taking comfort from the short-term gains in last night’s Budget, with its spokesperson John Falzon suggesting that the Budget failed to “identify and address the areas of market failure and...
